1. UC Berkeley Law School Dean Sujit Choudhry is on leave for sexually harassing his assistant, and the university is under fire for its handling of the case, the Bay Area News Group$ reports. Choudry’s actions only came to light because his assistant, Tyann Sorrell, sued the university. A campus investigation concluded that Choudhry had violated the university’s policies on sexual harassment, but allowed Choudhry to keep his faculty position, and only cut his pay by 10 percent. Choudhry also stepped down from his job as dean of the law school.

2. Bay Area transportation funds are being slashed by up to $96 million because of plunging gas prices, a development that means several key transit and infrastructure projects in the region will not be completed, the Chron$ reports. Governor Jerry Brown called on the legislature last year to raise taxes to pay for billions of dollars of needed infrastructure upgrades throughout the state, but Republican lawmakers declined to do so.